Dick Hardy Recovery time feels like hospital time— The tempo and flow, slow and strange, Where minutes stretch into hours, And a single day lingers for a week, A week, an aching month. The nights are long when sleep won’t arrive, The days even longer when pain won’t depart. Food no longer sings with…
Category: July 2025
July 2025, Features
Savor Retirement: Retirees and Anger: Understanding the Emotional Landscape of Retirement
Timothy Malone, Ph.D. Retirement is often envisioned as a time of leisure and relaxation, free from the demands of the workforce. However, this transition can be accompanied by unexpected emotional challenges for many retirees, including frustration, resentment, and even anger. These feelings may stem from financial concerns, health issues, changes in social roles, or feelings…
July 2025, Features
In Passing – July 2025
Nancy Lindquist Nancy Ellen Lindquist (née Gunderson), died peacefully at her home in SaddleBrooke, Arizona, on May 27, 2025, surrounded by loved ones. She was 91 years old. Nancy was born in Schroeder, Minn., on Dec. 30, 1933, the sixth and youngest child of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants, Fred and Elen Gunderson. She grew up…
July 2025, Features
A License to Laugh … Wieder!
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg It is time to hit the road for vacation time and/or family time. In the Summer of 2025, road trips are expected to outpace previous years. Flexibility, cost-saving, and the road trip experience are the factors that are sending people to travel on asphalt. If you will be out and about…
July 2025, Features
The Art of Not Caring
Suzanne Marlatt Stewart There’s a common belief that to be happy, you must constantly strive for more wealth, more status, and more possessions. At face value, it seems logical. More equals better, right? However, the truth is, as we age, happiness isn’t about attaining more; it’s about caring less. Less about external validation, societal expectations,…
July 2025, Features
Dollars & Sense: Managing Drug Costs
Leah Kari, Retired Pharmaceutical Representative and Licensed Insurance Agent Prescription drugs are lifelines that improve our health and quality of life. Often medication costs might prohibit filling a prescription. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) brought welcomed cost relief, effective Jan. 1, 2025. The IRA placed a $2,000 limit on you and your prescription drug coverage’s…
July 2025, Features
Word of the Month: Cudgel
David Zapatka Friend and fellow bridge player, Susan, writes, “I recently read a new word, ‘cudgel.’ Would you research this word for your column?” Cudgel—cud·gel noun: A short, thick stick used as a weapon. verb: To strike or beat with a cudgel; metaphorically, to forcefully apply or exert something, such as pressure or influence Origin…
July 2025, Features
When Dragonflies Breathed Fire
Stuart Watkins Stuart Watkins announces the publication of his children’s book, When Dragonflies Breathed Fire. This book has a fantasy story of a queen who attempts to find out why fires pop up in her meadow lands each autumn. She asks the deer and rabbits to seek the source of the fires. An owl tells…
July 2025, Features
Cooks Out of the Kitchen: Local Restaurant Reviews
Judi Friedman and Jerry Lankin We’re two SaddleBrooke foodies forever seeking great places to eat! We’ll review two restaurants each month for taste and presentation, service, price, value, and ambiance. If you have a favorite eatery and would like to spread the word, please send us an email at cooksoutofthekitchen@gmail.com. The Landing 8195 N. Oracle…
July 2025, Features
Introducing ‘Ask Emma,’ Advice and Paw-spective from a Little White Dog
Emma, a Little White Dog Hello SaddleBrooke neighbors! My name is Emma. I’m a cheerful bichon-poodle mix who lives here with my human, Bill. You may have seen us out on the cart paths early in the morning or around the neighborhood in our golf cart. I have lots of dog friends—Oliver, Jack, Mimi, Lulu,…